live from r t at nine pm the sinking island pressure mounts some cyprus to produce a bailout plan ahead of monday's e.u. deadline as reports claim europe's patience for the debt stricken country is running out. of other top stories from us thousands in damascus attend the funeral of a problem so the preach it killed in a suicide attack on a packed mosque on thursday the also claimed the lives of forty eight others live comment on that coming up this hour. and strengthening the alliance the new chinese president's first overseas trip sees the signing of multibillion dollar energy deals with russia this is beijing seeks partnerships to counterbalance u.s. global influence.

low they're very good evening if you think it was a little bit dark here then it was because we like a lot of other millions of people in fact from the rest the world in the middle of earth we've got to break it to broadcast the news to you but moscow is still in it for about an hour it's nine pm here we've been turning off the lights in solidarity of the world wildlife fund conservation hour as a saver to break it for a bit but the rest of moscow is in darkness at the moment let's show you some landmarks this is the normally lit up kremlin beautifully lit up normally but look at the scene there now this is all to show solidarity of the world wildlife fund to save energy to talk about renewable energy to make people think about switching off the lights to conserve energy better another normally beautifully lit the moscow state university look at it in pitch darkness at these. lights becoming one of about twenty five minutes medina coached over a correspondent will be talking to us about that but now the lights are back up let's continue with a new show in first of. all in

a last ditch attempt to rescue cyprus from bankruptcy president and see it is heading to brussels to meet eve officials this as his country struggles to meet the conditions for a ten billion euro bailout the cypriot parliament passed a number of bills covering key elements of a rescue plan but that wasn't enough to satisfy officials tests or a similar reports. reverdy here knows that time is indeed ticking they've had emergency sessions late into the make a trying to pass a bill that would form a part of a package that they both that they could present to the troika and get an approval for an order to get the ten billion euro bailout as i'm speaking it is all still in progress and they've approved part of the package what they did approve our capital pulls out that would give powers to banks to impose restrictions on the amount of money that they accessed by account holders to prevent a bank run that they're very afraid of once banks reopen bags right now are closed until next week until all this gets sorted out so when banks do be open they just

don't want people to suddenly pull out all their money so that's what top of the cells are for the other one that they had also agreed upon is a solidarity funds essentially pulling together assets coming from different sources for about six billion euros that they can again present to the troika hoping to satisfy them to get that ten billion euro bailout another one is also restructuring of the bank and all these are just part of the package something else that they haven't actually decided upon and made an announcement on is that back deposit levy if they are indeed going to continue to put to approve that idea of taxing deposit holders possibly uninsured deposits above one hundred thousand euros now if you remember the very reason why panic started in this country was when a bank deposit levy was imposed on all deposits holders including small account holders and that's what really angered the cypriots said they had gone out to the streets it's really been an emotional overload for them for the past a rollercoaster i spoke to some of them here's what they had to say the banking

crisis has affected us to know we can get the money we earned who work inside most were not jobless who can get cash out of a.t.m. machines. we've invested our money into the economy of cyprus but they could cut us off what are the grounds for that with the fullness of the morning beginning. we have to get out of the europe but we will stay home how they were it here and now a kids. we don't accept it will be no development with us and nobody would come to side with us not now this new bank deposit levy could possibly be announced but we have to wait for an official announcement that the important thing we have to know whether to try to will approve it now when the brussels on sunday well the crisis in cyprus is sending shock waves across the euro zone and another meltdown could be on the rise looser venier now to work whose small economies are also burdened by a heavily indebted banking sector the i.m.f. says that the share of bad debt there is increasing among some state run banks

while the bad debt at three of the country's leading backs in fact was fifteen point six percent of their total loans in twenty eleven but that figure rose to twenty point five percent last year adds up to around seven billion euros or twenty percent of the nation's g.d.p. staggering figures emerging markets analyst. says slovenia may seek a bailout in the second part of this year let's listen. the cypriot crisis will have broad based impacts across the eurozone and across the wider region but one country that stands out in particular is slovenia slovenia has been standing out as a potential candidate for seeking international bailout for much of the past year and now that we have had the crisis in cyprus and their form of the proposed bailout and a potential tax on deposits it really create increases fears in slovenia of what an international bailout might entail just living is definitely want to want to bear

in mind going forward as long as it's not shut from international markets and i don't think it is they will be fine and they won't have to seek international bailout the condition which would trigger slovenia having to seek international bailout is if the current political turmoil in slovenia carries on and effectively keeps living in the shots living out of international markets under that scenario slovenia might have to seek international bailout and i think this the stress points will become visible towards the second half of the when slovenia starts running out of cash potentially big story we're just getting some word in on this social media it's not been confirmed yet reports coming in that russian solver exult tycoon boris berezovsky has died the only confirmation of this so far a post on social media apparently by his son in law some sources say he may have committed suicide no there's no stress again no official confirmation of his death is said to have died today in london age sixty seven the city was his home for the last thirteen years made millions during the nine hundred ninety s.

it was was not spoken critic of president vladimir putin and he's been wanted in russia for years no one charges of fraud money laundering so that headline just through potentially big story brewing there tonight reports coming in the russians of exile tycoon boris berezovsky has died only confirmation on social media at the moment apparently from his son in law some sources saying he could have committed suicide recalls surgically following up for you. thousands of syrians are paying their last respects to a prominent sunni cleric killed by a suicide bomber in damascus mosque on thursday shaikh mohammed siad. bootie was also a high profile supporter of the embattled president bashar al assad syrian journalist of the mars xeni told us any muslim scholar who goes against the rebels is now at target. clergyman or let's say most of the schoolers who are not with the opposition were targeted or were killed we can remember a few names for example like mr ahmed saadat and others were killed because of

having an opinion different position but everybody believed that what happened is unjustified and cannot be explained we have extremist groups systemic seem to group jihad these who are fighting against the government and the mist it would be before he was killed last friday in his last speech he said that we should fight with the syrian army and you should not fight with with this opposition groups so this raises a lot of controversy and controversy and the discussion in the syrian society and this lead into this killing and we have mr kind of. the permanent sunni. spoiled who lives in he said beforehand that all people who are with the vision and even muslims should be killed if they are supporting the government says the syrian government so this is the context of this killing everybody was angry everybody said that he should not be killed he is one of the most famous. leda in syria

everybody said that he did not make a crime he did not kill anyone he just given his opinion if you are making an average looking for freedom he has the freedom to say whatever he wants that's that's what he wants everybody say that even say or someone in his age he's eighty four years old he's not fighting should be should not be killed at all and this is a crime even people of position or people support for the government agreed that this should not be done that way at least. for a skit civil reaction to this from syrian political activist danny makki is joining us on the line live from london hi there danny how do you expect this latest high profile killing to affect the situation is it going to affect it. well to an extent this does signify a new scenario in a new situation in the syrian crisis we have entered a new phase where the free syrian army is losing support after this atrocity which really left many million syrians in mourning we've had sunni sunni syrians chrystia

and i know why. for them a morning that is great is i think it was a leading scholar in the mystery and our quote which is unfortunately a lot although most of them look down the i mean the rebels claim to represent islam in the sunni majority of syria so why would they target their own what was the thinking i mean this is a great design mcmartin he was a fierce critic. isn't so what is thought this is actually comes in the notion of the battle between extremism and moderation you can argue that the who is renowned for its academic achievement was a mouthpiece a kind of symbol of what her. kind of business and he was a mouthpiece of moderation and he had many enemies most of them shakes in saudi arabia and qatar and there was a major motive for killing him which was the fact that was against these i'm a fixation and this crisis and he rejected the terrorism within which is attack in damascus and aleppo in a database so we could argue that this is

a very plain fact that he was condemned by the united nations and it was condemned by ki-moon as a terrorist atrocity even as a worker and in many numerous areas so we could argue that well and to do your phase of the opposition not really painting a secular or liberal now and then majority of them like stream and the fact that they would get one hundred eighty four years old and a very prominent renowned renowned exam it's going to show the level of power to operate them at the level of this procedure which is well within the rebel ranks to tell you haven't done it all i want to what this is going to do now for support for the opposition is it is it going to not that support you think in any way i just don't show them and of course that there will be no group but for support for the opposition after this this really could affect. a million and he was them he was a figure of stability a figure of pragmatism we could argue what this will do now is bring to the board for the sunni. majority of aleppo and damascus more closer into the heart of the government this work has a lot of opposition he wasn't think it was targeted on the opposition just

a numerous man who was targeted and in many areas in saudi arabia and qatar they have been rejoicing in this terrorist atrocity which is quite disgusting from every made and that kind of sense so we could argue that this has dismissed the notion of the opposition having anything to democracy or liberalism or any notion of them being secular the fact that they would use the carrot explosion inside a mosque hitting one of the most prominent followers of their age showed that these rebel groups have no relation to democracy and are nothing but real criminals and this and it was committed by members of the stream opposition which has created lots of fear actually among what i think up to or i don't like you thanks very much for your thoughts on the program. china is stepping up its energy security with the help of russia moscow has agreed to increase all supplies to its eastern neighbor three times the current level along with other multi-billion dollar deals the two powers also want geopolitical change to with the new chinese president saying ties

with russia will help bring about a third world order as he put it is ridiculous because been following the first official overseas trip. some of the major points that the chinese leader has also made of course was about the cooperation between russia and china among other things that the two countries also agree on is the fact that it is about time to leave the old stereotypes behind he said that we're living in the twenty first century and therefore the cold war era is gone and over with and therefore this theory types and thinking along those lines also has to go and he also mentioned that course russia and china are there cooperation will provide for a clearer world order he also mentioned of course the need to not just to move away from syria types but also to move towards the mall to four world and the multiple areas of the of the world is also one of the founding principles of bricks of course brics essentially was

a trade and economic organization but it is now moving increasingly towards becoming a major geo political player and that is going to be one of the main subjects of discussions during an upcoming brick summit in south africa and yet despite of course there are many agreements on the political level of russian trying to still have several things that they need to work on and the moment those things that is the gas supplies deal from russia to china which has been in the works for ten years and it does look like during this visit russia and china have made some headway towards finding a solution but the details of the deal are yet to be figured out and it is expected that those details will come up until the end of the year but of course the chinese leader said that russia and china nevertheless are each other's biggest partner and our business seeing eye to eye on a lot of issues and cooperation is something that the two countries are going not just to continue but we'll all start he said that his trip there is a symbolic significance be happening in march because they leave their hopes that

he will see some very good fruits borne forth from the seeds that he has sown during this visit. really there well well warning against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations the chinese president's visit to russia or underscored as well starts that a counterweight is needed to america's role in global affairs if we're mangles a geo political analyst and the author of myths lies in all wars he says she jinping trip is meant to show that beijing won't be a puppet. so it sends a signal to the united states to washington who has been very. bristolian and increasingly militarily hostile to chime in the last few years with the egypt of its so-called what russia has to bring to the table is essential for china and that is energy security over by plane land routes nason foiled primarily and at a time when the china's african oil sources are being increasingly put under pressure from africa and so dion and libya and elsewhere for russia it also has the stream

of the importing charting your orientation what to president putin calls how do you do your asian with the. direction of the russian economy if russia and china put it odds against each other and then the game is over and you have no contender to sole superpower germany from washington i think that's a very unhealthy state of the world both for the for china for russia for the rest of the world but also for the united states that too much power concentrated in too few hands is always a danger to world peace so much more lined up for this half hour of news on the way blackout behind us officials continue to downplay the scale of a much hunger strike at guantanamo bay while the pentagon that wants to expand their tori's facility to talk about that in more detail. we are facing

a lot of problems. because no one thought to think no good school. i know. we have been south park. ave local what's not enough one pays in law in a lawful means you've won a community l.n.g. most will be teased. i don't get death. dunsford. i was. right.

the one thousand nine hundred. four hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay claimed they'd been denied access to their clients the situation in fact is said to be life threatening that was more than one hundred captives have reportedly been starving themselves for months he was officials are downplayed the allegations though and the scale of the crisis while president obama still not kept his promise to close the detention center at the military is now apparently asking for money to upgrade the facility gonna teach a cab. the spokesperson for guantanamo robert zubrin responded to our tease inquiry here's what he writes as of friday the twenty second of march twenty thirty and we have twenty six hunger strike is with eight receiving and will feeds this is an increase from thursday which was twenty five in eight we have two detainees in the

detainee hospital for rehydration an observation on mental feed last time robert during got back to us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although defense attorneys had been saying there were many more on their overdue end says there are twenty six we cannot independently verify these numbers or any of this so we have to rely on the response that we get from the officials and the detainees lawyers and here's the latest from the attorneys apparently there are now denied direct access to their clients in guantanamo attorney say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds that's almost fourteen telegrams since the strike began at the beginning of february that visit was approved by the military but the lawyers say they've just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was canceled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp so attorneys are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now and

not just the attorneys but we journalists those well i spoke with a lawyer who was denied access to a client in guantanamo this week she told me there is a says among defense attorneys that they are being deliberately ignored by the authorities so as to think there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the department to bear arms to the commander. asking them. to talk to us about the detainees condition and we have heard no response so there is a sense of helplessness among the attorneys as well a few months ago the state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison and on top of it the u.s. south and. amende and that's the command that oversees guantanamo has just requested forty nine million dollars to build a new prison building at guantanamo bay for quote unquote special detainees on top of other renovations it says are necessary since washington decided to keep it open indefinitely the military said the potential taxpayer bill for upgrading the

deteriorating facilities would be almost one hundred ninety six million dollars and all of this effectively means that the detainees are stuck in this legal limbo indefinitely just most of them colonel barry ween godey's a u.s. military attorney who advocates for the detainees he told me that captives are being denied justice in a case like animals definitely so this. the last time that i saw my clients was between twenty the twenty fifth of february and the eighth of march i visited with them multiple times i was shocked at the condition that they're in in fact we were the first people that broke the story that the hunger strike had began february of the sixth or seventh around that time frame and it continued on my client at that time had lost twenty six pounds and at this point it's official that he has lost almost forty forty pounds one third of his body weight from one hundred forty seven pounds the administration down in guantanamo bay initially denied the report that the hunger strike was occurring they then said it was seven then fourteen then

twenty one then they said that it wasn't the largest hunger strike in history then they came out and said it's twenty four twenty five and today twenty six so the story is getting more and more accurate as we go but we're running out of time after eleven and a half years these men that live in animal cages in america's offshore prison in guantanamo bay they ask for justice they've been there eleven and a half years ninety percent of them have no charges i can tell you having looked at my clients cases they will never get a trial based upon the evidence that's against them so if their home countries are not willing to intervene to do something i don't see it coming from washington washington seems to take the position that we don't have the time to deal with these hundred sixty six condemned men and our offshore prison this is not about soccer fields or food or anything else this is about justice and freedom this is a bigger concept this is what the united states stands for not more servings of food and not more soccer fields to play on this is a matter of getting these men home or giving them trials and that's the answer.

complete change of talk in a few with those sixty minutes ago you'll know that russian capital's been plunged into darkness if you can't make. the normally the beautifully lit up crevice you can just see the gravel and stars there why it will because it's still in the middle of it. seven minutes to go i think within a culture that was going to explode a bit more within a culture of and it all went well so far we've just seen the kremlin of this of course going to go sure viewers can see it not because it's dark but it's the moscow state university that's normally beautifully lit isn't it yeah. that's pretty daughter snow for. russia participated in the world wildlife fund well actually russia turned off lights in the kremlin for the first time in seven years that's when first time this campaign just started this earth hour and russia turned off lights in kremlin also on the red square and the lighting around some bases confederal which is also beautiful when the lighting is our own everything now here you can see these are the kremlin wall average thing you can only can see the story

so that's a good thing to do this while the point is to participate in this and this can pain as it is a global can pain and it's a symbolic really movement to support our planets and to attract a lot of well track to tell inching towards some of the environmental needs here ok it's being looked at from a far is it from the top of the riots as for many people it is a very inspiring moment not only on the ground but in space as well as russian astronaut that i wonder when you go also supported this movement and he did that well he filmed a video in space and we can now listen to. this and we. when you live on the earth it seems that our planet is infinite and it's simply unimaginable that one doing all that surrounds us oceans seas forests could simply vanish but here in space we can see clearly just how much our planet care and

protection when i first came on board the international space station i was amazed by the beauty of the earth it's the most important thing we've gone it's our home we depend on it completely off and it depends on us on how we treat support the earth our turn off your lights at eight thirty pm tonight as a sign of how much you know here for our planet and we'll be watching here how the earth finally gets its hour of rest. you know that's pretty poignant as well isn't it because they always say when you're up in space and you look. for looks so fragile in the place look so beautiful so it can be a better place to really take advantage of this it's going from strength to strength this over the years as well as anybody you know right well as i sat as you just mentioned there's going to be only like five minutes left the lights go back the lights going to go bad here and i moscow in russia but this this campaign just travels for us that is again no tight ship in europe and some of the banking rypien

see this than across the ocean to the united states of america and canada either really. showed of it just just we just replay in that clip earlier on about fifty five minutes ago when the lights actually went off of course we were there the same thing with the university somebody called this which must be fun to do but we couldn't see it then because we had to go to a commercial break we're going to miss it the lights going back on again because we've got to go to a commercial break we've got another program coming but in a thanks for telling us about that we appreciate it the program coming up is the lives of rebel fighters in the old rich niger delta we explore their lives that song next program great programs why don't you stay with often you can.

jorge rios an argentinian student at seventeen other similar students from foreign countries all paid a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so that they get to take part in a u.s. state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week what was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgeon i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joint to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in work and

study and work in travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable foreigners to work for two dollars an hour cheaper it is corporate greed and their absolute disrespect for americans that allows this to happen just pay the extra two dollars and have americans work for you to cheap corporate pigs but that's just my opinion.

for the past few years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states just a large sex partner of oil on the planet but in the niger delta region that produces hundreds of of millions.